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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report introduced.
(Lima, Peru: Morton Dean) The status of the hostage crisis in the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima, Peru, featured; scenes shown of released hostages. [Released hostage Canadian ZANSTRA - describes being subdued by the terrorists.] Photos shown of some of the remaining 140 hostages, most of whom are Peruvian government officials. [WOMAN - comments.] The rebels' principal demand that their comrades be released from prison noted.
(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Interview held with Agency for International Development official Donald Boyd, an American who had just been released. [Voice of BOYD - describes the living conditions at the diplomatic compound.]
(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) The United States decision to send its commando team back home from Panama now that the American hostages have been freed mentioned.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Possible House Democratic plan for dealing with Representative Newt Gingrich, who admitted over the weekend that he had given inaccurate information to the House committee investigating his finances noted.
(New York: John Cochran) The ethical charges against Gingrich and the politics involved briefly reviewed. [In interview held in Ohio, GINGRICH - says he will likely be reelected Speaker of the House.]
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report introduced.
(Houston: Valeri Williams) Explosion of a nitrogen tank at the Woman Gordon plant near Houston featured; scenes shown of the damaged foundry building. [Foundry employee G.H. BELL, blast victim's mother Carin NORD - comment.]
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Suspicious fires at a black church in Jasper County, South Carolina and a white church in Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee, reported; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Explosion of a package bomb that injured attorney Jack Jacobson reported; scenes shown from Santa Cruz, California.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Record snowfall in the Sierra Nevada on the California-Nevada reported; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Personal income and consumer spending figures for the months cited.
(New York: Bob Brown) Christmas shopping via the computer featured; scenes shown to illustrate how Internet shopping works. [Shopper Tom HOLLAND, Dataquest Allen WEINER - comment on aspects of Internet shopping especially as compared to catalog shopping.]
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Enlarged photos shown proving that snowflakes are irregular because of moisture and temperature changes.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) The weekly look at how the government spends taxpayers' money introduced.
(The Capitol: John Martin) How the 21 million cost of the Teamsters union election was passed onto the American taxpayer explained; statistical breakdown cited. [Association for Union Democracy Herman BENSON, Representative Peter HOEKSTRA - offer differing opinions on whether the government should pay for the Teamsters election.] President Clinton's request from Congress for money for the election noted.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) The return of Russian President Boris Yeltsin to the kremlin shown.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) The role of United States envoy Dennis Ross in getting Palestinian Authority president Yasir Arafat and the Israelis close to a deal on the withdrawal of Israelis troops from the West Bank city of Hebron reported; scenes shown of the principals.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report introduced.
(Angola, LA: Mike von Fremd) The construction of Christmas toys by prisoners at Louisiana's Angola prison for needy children featured. [Prison toymakers Frank GREEN, Peter MULE. Randy KAYSEN, prison warden Burl CAIN, MOM, school superintendent Lloyd LINDSEY - talk about the toy making project.]
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